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OMMASTREPHES
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ommastrephes mean?
• OMMASTREPHES (noun)
The noun OMMASTREPHES has 1 sense:
1. extremely active cylindrical squid with short strong arms and large rhombic terminal fins
Familiarity information: OMMASTREPHES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extremely active cylindrical squid with short strong arms and large rhombic terminal fins
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("ommastrephes" is a kind of...):
squid (widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins)
Holonyms ("ommastrephes" is a member of...):
genus Ommastrephes (a genus of Decapoda)
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